Integration of stresses over a line or surface

Feature Requests
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Hi,
I wanted to suggest a feature in post-processing that would be very useful (to civil Engineers at least). It is the integration of stresses over a line or surface (or better over a set of lines or surfaces). Using this feature one can see the total forces or moments of something that has been modeled using 2d or 3d elements.

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CalculiX supported these feature for solid element, beam also but it’s not available for shell element.

*edited/added
but it could be useful when PrePoMax capable to do such as integration from stress in post-processing modes. Defining surface for any region user interest to get sectional forces, problem or limitation of composed beam and layered shell of CalculiX can be fixed or fulfiled.

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HI Matej,

Prepomax is giving me this error WHEN i TRY TO OPEN THE RESULTS.
It is a shell and I have edit the keywords to request the section print as usual.
.dat file is fine and contains the correct results.

*** Warning ***
Data failed to be parsed.
First data line: total surface force (fx,fy,fz) and moment about the origin(mx,my,mz)

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Can you share the .pmx file or .dat file?